Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Be still—"struck dumb with awe." Addressed to those already in the country, eye-witnesses of its ruin (Lamentations 2:10); or, in contrast to the busy din of commerce once heard in Tyre; now all is hushed and still.
isle—strictly applicable to New Tyre: in the sense coast, to the mainland city, Old Tyre (compare Isaiah 23:6; Isaiah 20:6).
Zidon—of which Tyre was a colony, planted when Zidon was conquered by the Philistines of Ascalon. Zidon means a "fishing station"; this was its beginning.
replenished—with wealth and an industrious population (Ezekiel 27:3, Ezekiel 27:8, Ezekiel 27:23). Here "Zidon," as the oldest city of Phœnicia, includes all the Phœnician towns on the strip of "coast." Thus, Eth-baal, king of Tyre [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 8.3,2], is called king of the Sidonians (I Kings 16:31); and on coins Tyre is called the metropolis of the Sidonians.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 23:2:
Isaiah 20:6
Isaiah 23:12
Ezekiel 26:10
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